Thursday, April 25, 2013

Wow! I really have been slacking when it comes to the blog! I am so sorry girls! Here is a look back at this last school year in pictures and words! We've been busy, busy, busy!

I have loved getting to know so many new girls this past year! We have had some fun times. We are just finishing up our study in Life Style by Whitney Prosperi, and will have a few meeting over the summer. I am working on the summer schedule right now and hope to have it mailed out later this week. Be watching your mailbox for that! If you don't get one let me know and I will make sure you are on the mailing list!

So what have we been up to?:

We have had a tea party: Where we had some yummy snacks, tea, punch, and a devotion.

Our Annual Sock Exchange: Where we had some yummy snacks, a hot chocolate bar, played games and of course exchanged some socks!

Some of us even participated in the Youth Christmas Party!

Not to mention all the times we laughed together during Girls Group that we were to busy having fun, to photograph!

I am so blessed to get to share in your lives! Thank you for making Sunday Nights so much fun!

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Welcome Back Girls! I have missed posting on this blog, as the new school year starts I feel like it's an opportunity to start back to blogging. Today I want to share a devotion from one of my favorite devotion books : Jesus Calling by Sarah Young. It's like littel love letters straight from God to me! I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do!

This devotion is from July 28th

Let my Love seep into the inner recesses of your being. Do not close off any part of yourself form Me. I know you inside and out, so do not try to present a "cleaned-up" self to Me. Wounds that you shut away from the Light of My Love will fester and become wormy. Secret sins that you "hide" from Me can split off and develop lives of their own, controlling you without you realizing it. Open yourslef fully to My transforming Presence. Let My brilliant Love-Light search out and destroy hidden fears. This process requires time alone with Me, as My Love soaks into your innermost being. Enjoy My perfect Love, which expels every trace of fear.

Psalm 139: 1-4

You have searched me,Lord,

and you know me.2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.3 You discern my going out and my lying down;you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongueyou, Lord, know it completely.

Psalm 139 23-24

Search me,God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.24 See if there is any offensive way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting.

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Hello Beautiful Girls! Boy have I missed meeting with you! So until we meet again I thought I would share this devotion (that I shared with the girls on the Spring Break Mission Trip). It's from the Book His Princess Girl Talk with God by Sheri Rose Shepherd.

Prince Running Back

When I was in High School, I was running slow laps around the track one day like a whimp. I heard someone yell from the back of the bleachers, "pick up your knees and run faster!" I looked over to see a typical "jock," a very handsome, dark-haired guy I knew was on the football team.

He yelled again, but I didn't realize he was yelling at me-good-looking boys had never noticed me before, so I ignored him. Then he ran down on the track beside me and said, "Did you hear me? Get your knees up and run faster!"

"Why Should I?" I asked him.

"Because you need to run harder if you're going to be the next Miss USA," he shot back at me

"What makes you think I want to be Miss USA?" I asked.

"Last year when you were weighing in at the health club, I was standing in line right behind you," he told me. "I heard you tell the manager your goals."

Now I was embarrassed , so I answered, "I was only kidding. I could never be Miss USA."

"I've watched you," He told me . "I've seen you get off drugs and lose all that weight. I think you can do anything. I'm proud of you."

I started to cry tears of joy, because no one other than my dad and stepmom had ever been proud of me or believed in me. I found out that this running back's name was Mark, but from that day on, I called him Prince Running Back. After he finished running with me, he offered to train me for the pageant. "What pageant?" I asked.

"The one I am entering you in next year," he replied. I thought I Must be dreaming. Someone had seen the best in me even before I had become the best version of me. But Prince Running Back taught me to believe that I could do anything if I would change the way I looked at myself and the world around me.

Ask God to open your eyes to how He sees you, and then let your Daddy in heaven change the way you see yourself and others.

IF GOD WROTE A LOVE LETTER TO YOU..... (This is what it would say)

MY Beautiful Girl~ I see greatness in you. Don't be afraid to dream big just because of past disappointments. Remember, it wasn't your Faith in Me that failed you, it was your faith in people that caused the pain of broken dreams. I can do anything you ask in My name. King David started out as a small shepherd boy, but had faith big enough to kill a giant. I am just as real today in you as I was for David back then. So ask Me, obey Me, and seek Me with all your heart, mind, and strength . And then watch My promises to you come to pass in My perfect time.

Love

Your Daddy in Heaven

God can do anything, you know--far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! Ephesians 3:20 (The Message)

Monday, February 20, 2012

Sunday Night we held our first Midnight Madness, and I have to say even with very little voice it was Awesome! Thanks so much to Christy P, Ari C., and Lydia T. for being my voice and for being awesome whistle blowers!

We started the night with speed chatting (it's like speed dating with get to know you questions)

We watched the Movie Soul Surfer (and of course I cried again!) and divided into small groups afterwards to talk about the movie.

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."

Even though we don't know why God allowed the shark to attack Bethany, or why anything bad happens. We know and can believe that God is in control! That He Loves us! and He has a Plan for us! (Each of us!) He knows us, even before we were born (Psalm 139) he made a plan for our lives! Don't live in the dot!

After the Movie we ate some food! (Lots and lots of food) played some games! (Sardines was a big hit!) and did some crafts! Then we played a round of Don't upset the apple cart! No one got hurt! Yeah!
Enjoy the pictures of our fun night!

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